Create a unique photo book with all your favourite photos, which is a great way to retain your memories. You can now create and purchase your own real photo books at a reasonable and honest price.

Our photo books are stitch bound (not glue bound), allowing you to flip pages and spread the book out flat without having the binding crack. (Glue bound books often come apart especially in hot climates where the glue melts.)

Review: I have made 5 books now in the 9X7, 8X8, 7x5. I use quark express to lay out each page with text and pictures, then convert to JPEG images and drop them on the pages using their silverlight software. If I am not using page numbers, I am careful to remove from every page. The hardest part is setting up the cropping areas. If at the end you make SURE to preview each page at the top of the program you can check centering and layout very easily. If you make a mistake go back and fix you original. The hardest is the cover. Watch for trim on the RH side.

Pros: A Great book for the price. Keep the resolution high on the pix and they will come out great! Each new book is done in about 25% less time than the last.

Cons: Except for Silverlight being a little squirrely everything works very well.

Bottom Line: I just love making these books and Arts gives deals I just can't turn down. Better than my local Costco.

At this price, you can make books about anything as often as you like!

Overall Rating :

5.00

Recommend For : Myself

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Review: If I were a Shutterfly user, I would only make books for the most important things because of the price (baby books, major vacations, year in review?). They give you one "free" book per year, but after the shipping, their 'free' books cost the same as ArtsCow books which are on sale SEVERAL times per year!!.

Pros: I usually make 8x8 or 6x6 books, but this time I tried the 9x7 because I thought layouts would be easier to make on a rectangle page instead of a square. I think it was! For instance, if you have a landscape photo, it can fill the whole page. If you have 2 vertical photos, they can fill the page side by side. (see pic) It's more intuitive than a square page, which would perhaps make this a better book size for beginners to make.
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Cons: The price is so good that it causes you to want to design way more books than you have time to make. You have to pace yourself. No cons regarding this particular book size.

Bottom Line: ArtsCow books are so affordable, so versatile,and so fun!! Print yourself a book instead of making prints! You'll use it much more than prints, too!.

Review: Overall, I'm very surprised at how well these books came out. I'd never ordered one before and was overjoyed at the quality!.

Pros: - Crisp imagery.
-Sooooo many ways to customize the layout.
- No images eaten by the gutter or cut off.

Cons: Some of the images were a bit blurry as Artscow's editor tends to read the dpi's as ridiculous numbers at times, (42, 13, 86, etc) when I'm more than positive the images are 300 dpi, so it was a bit confusing as to what would print well.

Bottom Line: Make sure your images are hi-res and you should have no problems. There's a lot of ways to make the book look amazing.